(AFP/File) - A peforms plastic surgery in 2008. More foreigners are travelling to the Czech Republic for breast enlargements and facelifts as the economic crisis drives the search for cheaper cosmetic surgery, tourism officials said Tuesday.(AFP/File... [Full Article]
(AP) - A woman holds a plastic bottle in a balcony with windows covered in wrapping metal sheets to fend off the heat, a popular method in communist times when air conditioning equipment was not available to most people, in a poor area of Bucharest, ... [Full Article]
(AFP/File) - Indian workers remove plastic sheeting which is covering sacks of wheat at a storage facility on the outskirts of Amritsar in June 2011. India, whose wheat stocks are overflowing because of bumper crops, has lifted a four-year ban on exp... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - A reveller poses with plastic cups as glasses on the fifth day of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona July 10, 2011. Visitors to the nine day festival, depicted in Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises", take par... [Full Article]
(AP) - An elderly man makes thread from a plastic sack inside his hut at Kunwarpur village, 70 kilometers (44 miles) east of Allahabad, India, Sunday, July 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Fadhil al-Abboudi points to some machines at his idle plastic manufacturing factory in Baghdad June 13, 2011. Despite government announcements of ambitious plans to expand Iraq's oil sector, whose huge energy reserves invite compariso... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - A plastic sheet containing human remains with the words reading, "EXH:5-11, Ciudad Planeta" is pictured in a clandestine cemetery in the Ciudad Planeta neighborhood in La Lima June 17, 2011. Honduras' judicial authorities fo... [Full Article]
(AP) - A lone protester, covered by a plastic sheet, gestures after spending the night at Syntagma square in front of the Greek Parliament in central Athens, prior to a rally against plans for new austerity measures, on Wednesday, June 15, 2011. A 24... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - French artist Laurence Jenkell poses near her over-sized plastic resin, aluminium sand cast candy sculptures which represents the European Union and American flags in her workshop in Vallauris, May 21, 2011. Jenkell prepares for her May ... [Full Article]
(AFP/File) - A man holds a plastic bag in central Rome in 2010. With each European using 500 plastic bags per year, and tonnes of plastic littering the Mediterranean, the European Commission may ban them from stores or tax them to combat pollution.(A... [Full Article]